Vinnie Tortorich

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Backing Out of the Room – Episode 2376

by Vinnie Tortorich

Episode 2376 – On this Monday’s show, Vinnie Tortorich and Anna Vocino discuss PubMed and the NIH “backing out of the room,” grocery merchandising, informative youtube videos, and more.

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You can watch this episode on Vinnie’s Fitness Confidential YOUTUBE channel –https://www.youtube.com/@FitnessConfidential

BACKING OUT OF THE ROOM 

  • Anna and Vinnie spend a few moments talking about Anna’s pumpkin marinara and how she is taking pre-orders. (2:00)
    • This leads to s discussion of Halloween, candy, and trick-or-treating stories.
    • Then somehow this segues to Richard Simmons and nude-colored stockings.
  • Anna brings up an article entitled, “Carbohydrate-based diet may increase the risk of cardiovascular disease: A pooled analysis of two prospective cohort studies.” (24:00)
    • The link is to the PubMed website here.
    • Vinnie feels vindicated but feels that government agencies are “slowly backing out of the room”.
    • Vinnie and Anna agree that those agencies can’t commit to a decisive stand because of the origins of funding.
  • Anna and Vinnie discuss the challenge of getting into grocery store chains and the immense expense. (30:00)
  • Anna asks how are people supposed to learn what is better for their health if agencies like NIH won’t commit to a recommendation.
    • Anna reads more from the PubMed article, and Vinnie gives her some pushback. (38:00)
    • Vinnie goes over the “quality of carbs”, simple carbs, and complex carbs.
    • He also goes over what leads to insulin resistance. (43:00)
  • Vinnie plays an Instagram which is relevant to the conversation. (48:00)
    • People get so confused because of certain things they hear on the internet.
    • Some doctors find an item to hang their hat on, and that becomes the new thing (and point of confusion).

MORE HELP

  • The duo touch upon the difficulty people have when they are emotionally stressed or depressed and turn to food. (50:00)
    • If you are depressed, please get any reliable help you can.
    • Online services like BetterHelp or similar make getting help more accessible. (BetterHelp is not a sponsor of the show.)
  • Vinnie shares one of his youtube videos regarding artificial sweeteners. (1:00:00)
    • It clarifies the differences among various sweeteners and is very interesting! You can watch it here.
  • He shares other video topics he’s addressing on his youtube channel.
  • Don’t forget to check out Anna’s Eat Happy Kitchen Substack, too!
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Hiking Mt. Whitney with Don Coddington – Episode 1896

by Vinnie Tortorich

Episode 1896 – On this Friday show, Don Coddington joins Vinnie Tortorich to discuss their trip to Lone Pine to hike Mount Whitney, misconceptions about salt, Don’s fat loss, food addiction, and more.

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HIKING MOUNT WHITNEY

  • Don and Vinnie tried to hike Mt. Whitney recently.
  • First, they stayed in Lone Pine.
    • It’s a very, very small place.
  • For Mt. Whitney, they only give 100 passes a day.
    • The question Vinnie and Don have is: why? There is so much space!
      • For other mountains in CA, WA, and CO, there are thousands every day.
    • They finally learned why, and got the 411 on the mountain’s rangers.
  • This year, Don and Vinnie climbed it without a pass — they know this wasn’t right, but they picked up trash on the way up and down.
  • They tried to do the hike a couple of days.
    • To prep, they did a shorter hike.
    • After a failed attempt for Vinnie, they were plagued by thunderstorms.
  • Vinnie, for whatever reason, got really sick while he was hiking and couldn’t summit.
    • He was disoriented and flu-ey, and he hadn’t been drinking water because that made him feel sick, too.
    • Vinnie was nearly falling over.
    • Don thought he physically lost him at one point!
      • He thought maybe he had gotten too dizzy and fallen off the mountain.

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ULTRA SALT

  • Don had some misconceptions.
  • You CAN overdo salt.
  • He would do 1000 mg of salt with 16 oz of water.  Really, you only need that with a liter of water.
  • If you feel lightheaded or are going to do heavy exercise, take a couple of Ultra Salts, but there is a limit.
    • Vinnie says take 15-20 oz of water per Ultra Salt.
  • Too much water without electrolytes can be a problem; too much salt is the opposite problem.

DON’S FAT LOSS

  • Don has lost a substantial amount of weight.
  • Now, he can hike up and down Mount Whitney with much more ease.
  • Zone 2 training was also important for him.
  • For Don, pizza and ice cream is what got him high.
    • He needed to break the addiction and emotion-numbing effect of food.

 

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Reactions to Healthy Eating – Episode 1195

by Vinnie Tortorich

 : Episode 1195 – This Wednesday, we are sharing a ‘Saturday’ success story! Use this as motivation to power through the Thanksgiving holiday, or put some Life into Living and get back on the wagon right after. Listener Haley Rushton joins Vinnie, and the two talk Haley’s weight loss journey, emotional eating, reactions to healthy eating, what’s in her fridge, and more.

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HALEY’S STORY

  • She is from Nova Scotia
    • Works for a car dealership in communications and marketing
  • Surrounded by essentially nothing
  • Lonnie in the Facebook group recommended to Vinnie that she be on this podcast!
  • She found NSNG after failure with everything else (all the crap diets)
    • Did Keto for awhile before but ate all the fake sweeteners and didn’t have much progress
      • Was still a sugar addict
    • Her dad introduced her to the Facebook group, and she began to see changes
  • Had to get over emotional eating
    • When she doesn’t eat sugar or grains, she does not have the emotional food cravings as much
  • Haley has two kids – 1 and 4
  • She is losing weight in small amounts
  • Currently 5’7″, 214 lbs
    • Was 275 a year ago after her second baby
  • She’ll go several weeks really strict, then fall of the wagon
    • There’s a big psychological component to it
  • Huge carnivore

REACTIONS TO HEALTHY EATING

  • She does not want to live her life centered around food
    • Doesn’t lecture others on how to eat or justify her way of eating
  • She and Vinnie both don’t explain to others because people, uninformed, try to fight back
  • Don’t engage with people if they won’t listen – they’re likely jealous, or too addicted to carbs
  • You don’t need to justify your healthy eating to anyone else
    • If it works for you, do it!
  • Make your health your top priority – NOT making other people feel good about how you eat
  • Don’t let others pressure you into eating crap in social situations

Angriest Trainer 301: 1-on-1 with Isabel Foxen Duke

by Vinnie Tortorich

Isabel Foxen Duke is a Brooklyn-based Life Coach who teaches a master class called “Stop Fighting Food” that focuses on food and our mindset around food.  She discusses the physical and emotional reasons that diets and calorie restriction actually encourages binge eating.  Join Anna and Isabel and learn how to cultivate a new attitude toward dieting and food.

We Live in a Diet Culture

  • Look at diet from the evidence-based standpoint that “the degree to which we have restriction in our lives is the degree to which we tend to lean on food for emotional comfort”
  • Emotional eating is impulsive and a craving that is out of our control 
  • We are taught to use willpower to actively fight our body’s needs

Why People Fail at Diets

  • Dieting is deciding what your body needs by some external plan rather than our individual needs
  • In “calorie deprivation”, the need for food now – our biology – will win in the attempt of getting our blood sugar back up
  • There are two parts:  The physical aspect and the emotional aspect

Emotional Aspect

  • There is guilt, shame and moral judgement for making “bad” food choices
  • This is a precursor to spiraling binge-eating…we’re either off the wagon or on the wagon
  • Need to get to a place of peace around food…taking our power back from food
  • We give food so much power – as if eating a cupcake makes us a “disgusting fatty”

“Stop Fighting Fat” Course

  • Learn new coping mechanisms
  • If I do eat emotionally, how do I do I keep from binging
  • Develop an ease and sanity around food
  • Learn to finally drop the fight and make food about instinct and biology

One of Anna’s fave quotes from this episode: “How can we finally drop the fight and make food about our instincts and our biology?” –Isabel Foxen Duke

Stop Fighting Food teaches women how to “stop feeling crazy around food.” That means, get off the diet-binge cycle, stop feeling “out of control around food,” and finally have a life that doesn’t revolve around trying to lose the last 10 (or 50) lbs. This program addresses the thinking that underlies compulsive eating and obsession with food, rather than giving specific behavioral instructions or nutrition information. The Free Video Training Series (an introduction to the work) covers topics like: 

-Why trying to control yourself around food always backfires

-The two primary reasons people eat outside of physical need (The difference between Emotional Eating & Binge-Eating)

-Why having a “normal” relationship with food requires liking your body first

The Master Class goes into extensive depth on topics like “intuitive eating,” “emotional/binge eating,” “body positivity” and will leave women with all of the mental tools they need to take their power back from food.

Stop Fighting Food (affiliate link) and Stop Fighting Food (non-affiliate link).  We offer you guys both links so you can choose what you’d like to use.  

Angriest Trainer 298: Stacey Hughes and Nikki Kimbal

by Vinnie Tortorich

Today’s show features two amazing guests…Stacey Hughes, a listener from Montana, and Nikki Kimball, a return guest, who was a ski racer by the age of 3!  Join Vinnie and Anna as they discuss nutrition, depression, women’s sports and in their typical fashion, go off topic and talk about guns and music.  Zone 2 breathing techniques are also discussed.

Learn and laugh…

Stacey Hughes 

  • Fan from Montana who listens while on her tractor at Hughes Mountain Ranch
  • Was on the TV show, “Last American Cowboy” on Animal Planet
  • Became a dietician in 2002 and worked with cardiac patients, diabetics and the obese
  • Saw a shift from “ Carbohydrate Consistency” to the role fats play in our health

Nikki Kimball

  • An incredible athlete…won the Western States 100 three times
  • Talks about her journey with depression which she was diagnosed with after college
  • Was sleeping 18 hours a day and losing weight
  • Found the right doctor and the right medication

Living With Depression

  • Nikki shares that it is a lifetime challenge
  • She stays in touch with her doctor so he can help her with medication
  • Depression doesn’t “go away”
  • Anna suggests a challenge to take 5 minutes everyday to sit down and quiet your mind, #AStillMind

Nikki’s Movie

  • “Finding Traction”…premieres February 10, 2015 on PBS
  • Film is about an expedition run Nikki did from Canada to Massachusetts through the Long Trail in Vermont
  • Film not just about professional sports…it also covers women athletes and depression

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